Recognizable for its three-storey tall Rod of Asclepius symbol, the Fort Royal Medical Centre on Richmond Avenue at Fort Street is slated for demolition. An assisted living residence for seniors is planned to rise in its place.

'Rod of Asclepius'-adorned Fort Royal Medical Centre to make way for seniors residence

An artist's rendering depicts a proposal to replace the Rod of Asclepius-adorned Fort Royal Medical Centre on Fort Street at Richmond Road with a 135-unit seniors residence. The site is situated adjacent to the Turner's Building (visible at-right) which itself is the focus of a redevelopment effort that could see it transformed into a multi-storey medical offices building.

The 5th floor corner on the Fort Street end there, you expect that to be a glass corner, don't you? At least for one more window unit, if not for the entire corner? But it looks like it will be solid wall. I know we've talked about this to death on the Encore thread, but it can be amazing how just a tiny bit more glass can make a huge difference.

Anyway, it looks good. Better than I expected. I still have high hopes that this car-centric intersection can be much more comfortable and neighbourhood-ish than it is right now, and this project would seem to be a step in that direction.

I love how the Turner Building is still boarded up and abandoned in the above rendering. I guess no one has any idea if that will ever move forward.

Yeah, I wonder what happened. The last rumbles were circa 2016.

A couple of months back I heard from someone involved with the application that the project was bogged down in the approval process and the doctors are not all in agreement on what the next move should be.